There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the effort of taking thought for the day after tomorrow; just as the highly prosperous are conservative because they have small occasion to be discontented with the situation as it stands today.

There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.